Madagascar

Madagáscar Madagaskar English thumb|240px|Flag of Madagascar thumb|240px|Madagascar on a globe Etymology Borrowed from en frm Madagascar, from Madageiscar, popularly reputed as a corrupted transliteration of en Mogadishu by Marco Polo's misreading of Arabic.MadagascarMadagascar n 112003 September 2021 The maps of particular interest are that of al-Idrisi in the 12th century, who produced the Tabula Rogeriana, the most advanced world map at the time. The actual misconstrued term was en ar جَزِيرَة المَالَائِيّ jazīrat al-mālāʔiyy The Island of Mālāī listed alongside ar جَزِيرَة القَمَر jazīrat al-qamar The Island of the Moon which lent its name to Comoros; Madagascar however likely being the original based on its dimensions. The map in question warps the direction of Africa's east coast to be parallel to the coast of southeast Asia, prompting a conflation of the regions furthest east and furthest south, in the reaches of Arab exploration. This perhaps makes the Island of Mālāī both representing Madagascar and an island in Indonesia, likely Sumatra, in close proximity to Malaysia. To conflate matters further, the populations of both regions are of Austronesian background, a fact pointed out by Arab explorers who identified Madagascar as colony of the former region. A second wave of Austronesians, including Malays, did indeed migrate to the island after the first group had originally left from what was likely Southern Borneo from linguistic and genetic analysis. "Mālāī-Gezīra" also holds connection to the term for the people and languages of the island, en Malagasy, which had earlier forms en Malegass and en Madegass, because of dialect division. Pronunciation en /mædəˈɡæskə/ /-skɑː/ RP,SSB en /madəˈɡaskə/ /-skaː/ Northern England,Wales en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Madagascar.wav London /madəˈɡaskə/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Madagascar.wav Southern England /madəˈɡaskə/ en /mædəˈɡæskɑɹ/ US en /madəˈɡaskəɾ/ /-skaɾ/ Scotland en æskə(ɹ) æskɑː(ɹ) 4 Proper noun en Q1019en island/and/country off the east coast of cont/Africa Antananarivo Republic of Madagascar. en Cyrus Multhauf How a Malagasy Teenager Created the World’s Second-Largest Dictionary NEEM Blog https://neemblog.home.blog/2020/08/04/how-a-malagasy-teenager-created-the-worlds-second-largest-dictionary/ 2020-08-04 Malagasy, like many indigenous languages in the Global South, has few formal language resources. When Jagwar – born in Madagascar — discovered Wiktionary as a teenager, he saw an opportunity to correct this. https://web.archive.org/web/20210304202237/https://neemblog.home.blog/2020/08/04/how-a-malagasy-teenager-created-the-worlds-second-largest-dictionary/ Holonyms en Subsahara Derived terms en Madagascar buzzard Madagascar yellowbrow Madagascan Madagascar hissing cockroach Madagascar plum Madagascar bean Madagascar jasmine Malagasy Translations Q1019 country in Southern Africa Afrikaans: af Madagaskar Amharic: am ማዳጋስካር Arabic: ar مَدَغَشْقَر f Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܡܲܕܲܓܲܫܩܲܪ f Armenian: hy Մադագասկար Assamese: as মাদাগাস্কাৰ Asturian: ast Madagascar Azerbaijani: az Madaqaskar Belarusian: be Мадагаска́р m Bengali: bn মাদাগাস্কার Breton: br Madagaskar Bulgarian: bg Мадагаска́р m Burmese: my မဒါဂတ်စကား Catalan: ca Madagascar m Cherokee: chr ᎹᏓᎦᏍᎧᎵ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 馬達加斯加 Mǎdájiāsījiā Czech: cs Madagaskar m Danish: da Madagaskar Dhivehi: dv މަޑަގަސްކަރަ Dutch: nl Madagaskar Esperanto: eo Madagaskaro Estonian: et Madagaskar Finnish: fi Madagaskar French: fr Madagascar Galician: gl Madagascar Georgian: ka მადაგასკარი German: de Madagaskar Greek: el Μαδαγασκάρη f Hausa: ha Madagaskar Hebrew: he מדגסקר madagaskár Hindi: hi मेडागास्कर, hi मैडागास्कर m Hungarian: hu Madagaszkár Icelandic: is Madagaskar n Ingrian: izh Madagaskara Interlingua: ia Madagascar Irish: ga Madagascar m Italian: it Madagascar m Japanese: ja マダガスカル Madagasukaru Kamba: kam Madagaska Kazakh: kk Мадагаскар Khmer: km ម៉ាដាហ្គាស្ការ Kikuyu: ki Madagaska Korean: ko ^마다가스카르, ko ^마다가스까르 North Korea Kyrgyz: ky Мадагаскар Lao: lo ມາດາກັດກາ, lo ມາດາກາສະກາ Latin: la Madagascaria Latvian: lv Madagaskara f Lithuanian: lt Madagaskaras m Luhya: luy Madagaska Luo: luo Madagaska Macedonian: mk Мадага́скар m Malagasy: mg Madagasikara Malay: ms Madagaskar Maltese: il-mt Madagaskar m Manx: gv Madagascar Māori: mi Marakāhia, mi Matakahaka Meru: mer Madagaska Mongolian: mn Мадагаскар Navajo: nv Mágí Bitseeʼ Noodǫ́zí Bikéyah Norman: nrf Madagascar Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Madagaskar Nynorsk: nn Madagaskar Persian: fa ماداگاسکار mâdâgâskâr Pitcairn-Norfolk: pih Madagascar Polish: pl Madagaskar Portuguese: pt Madagáscar m Portugal, pt Madagascar Brazil Punjabi: pa ਮਾਦਾਗਾਸਕਰ m Western Punjabi: pnb مڈغاسکر Romanian: ro Madagascar n Russian: ru Мадагаска́р Scots: sco Madagascar Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Мадагаскар m Latin: sh Madagaskar m Sinhalese: si මැඩගස්කරය Slovak: sk Madagaskar m Slovene: sl Madagaskar m Spanish: es Madagascar Swahili: sw Bukini, sw Madagaska Swedish: sv Madagaskar Tagalog: tl Madagaskar Tajik: tg Мадагаскар Tamil: ta மடகாஸ்கர், ta மடகஸ்கார் Sri Lanka Tatar: tt Мадагаскар Thai: th มาดากัสการ์ Tibetan: bo མ་ད་གཱ་སི་ཀར Tigrinya: ti ማዳጋስካር Turkish: tr Madagaskar Turkmen: tk Madagaskar Ukrainian: uk Мадагаска́р m Urdu: ur مڈغاسکر meḍāġāskar Uyghur: ug ماداگاسكار Uzbek: uz Madagaskar Vietnamese: vi Ma-đa-gát-xca Yiddish: yi מאַדאַגאַסקאַר Yoruba: yo Madagásíkà See also Countries of the world Noun en rare obsolete A resident of Madagascar. en Madagascan Madagascarian Malagasy References Catalan ca: Pronunciation [arr] ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-Madagascar.wav Valencia Proper noun m ca Madagascar Q1019 Central Huasteca Nahuatl Proper noun nch proper noun nch Madagascar Q1019 Central Nahuatl Proper noun nhn proper noun nhn Madagascar Q1019 French fr: Pronunciation fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Madagascar.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>) fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Madagascar.wav France Proper noun f fr Madagascar Q1019 fr Grande Île Derived terms fr pervenche de Madagascar porcelaine de Madagascar Related terms fr malgache Malgache Italian it: Proper noun m it Madagascar Q1019 Related terms it malgascio Manx Proper noun gv proper noun m gv Madagascar Q1019 Mutation M adagascar Portuguese Pronunciation Madagascarh pt Ma da gas car Proper noun f pt Madagáscar Brazilian Portuguese form pt terms with varying stress Spanish es: es :der frm:Madagascar Pronunciation +<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Millars-Madagascar.wav<a:Spain>> Proper noun es Madagascar Q1019 Related terms es malgache